Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. Students will have the opportunity to participate in online consultation sessions.

Content

In this unit, we introduce the internet and the web. We introduce the techniques of creating web content using HTML, XML and JavaScript, and discuss how web servers and browsers provide functionality. The unit focuses on the web and internet programming. Topics include client-side and server-side programming. We briefly introduce basic internet services such as FTP, Telnet, email, news etc. as well as web authoring and programming. HTML is included, covering HTML basics, layout, hypertext links, images, multimedia, image maps, tables, frames, forms, and PHP to design home pages. Finally, we present the future of the internet and the web.